Top 100 Scientists

World Top 100 Scientists 2025

Top 100 scientists can be ranked globally or specific to the following regions including Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, Latin America, Oceania, Arab League, ASEAN, EECA, and BRICS based on total H-index scores without any breakdown by subject areas. Top 100 rankings in the world, in a continent, or a region include standardized subjects areas of Agriculture & Forestry, Arts, Design and Architecture, Business & Management, Economics & Econometrics, Education, Engineering & Technology, History, Philosophy, Theology, Law/Law and Legal Studies, Medical and Health Sciences, Natural Sciences, Social Sciences, Art and Humanities Rankings and Social Sciences and Humanities Rankings BETA VERSION. Subject field ranking in world, region, country and university is beta version since subject field "others" (870,053 scientists profile whose branch cannot be determined, not yet edited or determined) is excluded, so the ranking will change as the others fields are edited. Please note that. Subjects indicated as “ * others ” will not be included in the ranking by regions and subjects.

* Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 1
John A Matthews
Physical Geography
Holocene environmental change
geo-ecology
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
58
160
10,907
* Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 2
Keith Halfacree
Rural Studies
Counterculture
Counterurbanisation
Internal Migration
Nature
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
41
74
12,085
* Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 3
Marcus Doel
Human Geography
Poststructuralism
Social Theory
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
38
76
7,191
Allan Spessa
insect population prediction
wildfire forecasting
machine learning
simulation modelling.
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
26
31
3,456
Sergei Shubin
Inequality: poverty and social exclusion
Critical geographies of development
Moving geographies: mobilities and migrations
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
17
23
1,143
Amanda Rogers
Performing arts
race and identity
transnationalism
contemporary Cambodian performance
post-conflict cultures
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
10
12
475
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 1
John A Matthews
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
58
160
10,907
Physical Geography
Holocene environmental change
geo-ecology
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 2
Keith Halfacree
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
41
74
12,085
Rural Studies
Counterculture
Counterurbanisation
Internal Migration
Nature
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 3
Marcus Doel
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
38
76
7,191
Human Geography
Poststructuralism
Social Theory
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 4
Allan Spessa
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
26
31
3,456
insect population prediction
wildfire forecasting
machine learning
simulation modelling.
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 5
Sergei Shubin
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
17
23
1,143
Inequality: poverty and social exclusion
Critical geographies of development
Moving geographies: mobilities and migrations
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 6
Angharad Closs Stephens
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
16
16
1,130
nations
affect
politics
arts
citizenship
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 7
Amanda Rogers
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
10
12
475
Performing arts
race and identity
transnationalism
contemporary Cambodian performance
post-conflict cultures